A Christmas Gift For Phoronix Readers - Improving Graphs

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Phoronix: A Christmas Gift For Phoronix Readers - Improving Graphs

First of all, Merry Christmas for those of you celebrating today or Happy Holidays regardless...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=2019-Xmas-Graph-Improvements

[tchiwam]

Thank you for your contribution.

I'd like to see more of operations vs size dependent graphs.

One example from my mini bench mark:

https://github.com/tchiwam/ptrbench/blob/master/results/MaxFLOPS.png

I don't know if this would be feasible... But just an idea.

[bug77]

I think the graphs are pretty fine (red for AMD, blue for Intel, green for Nvidia, with the tested piece properly highlighted).

There are only two suggestions I have:
1. Make it more obvious which graphs are "higher is better" and which are "lower is better". The small font is atrocious on the eye, maybe use a slightly different background for one category.
2. When testing more than one thing using the same test (e.g. min/avg/max fps+fps/W for one game), maybe group all graphs together, add tabs and make them clickable or changeable on mouse hover.

Happy holidays everyone.

[xxmitsu]

When drawing graphs, Min FPS is an irrelevant statistic (like Max FPS), it's a single frame that could screw the whole statistics. But a 95 percentile, if you could implement that, it would give a much better impression with regards to its performance.

[Michael]

When drawing graphs, Min FPS is an irrelevant statistic (like Max FPS), it's a single frame that could screw the whole statistics. But a 95 percentile, if you could implement that, it would give a much better impression with regards to its performance.

For engines/games exposing per-frame data, that is where you see the box plots displayed as secondary metrics to the FPS graphs... Unfortunately, most games don't expose the per-frame information so can't report percentile data, so just the average (and min / max when exposed) are reported.

[Zyklon]

Better scaling for mobile would be good, currently the graphs are cut off in vertical mode.

(And there are also some other issues on mobile forum usage...)

[boxie]

For engines/games exposing per-frame data, that is where you see the box plots displayed as secondary metrics to the FPS graphs... Unfortunately, most games don't expose the per-frame information so can't report percentile data, so just the average (and min / max when exposed) are reported.

I vaguely remember something about there being a Vulkan layer that could expose frame timing info? was there ever any movement on this?

[boxie]

never mind, I spoke without thinking it through

[keivan]

Graph texts are invisible for me in Samsung internet browser for Android in dark mode.

[Ratbert]

It would be nice if graph labels had hover or clickable tooltip for specs metadata, something like: